Country profile · LV
Latvia
5 NUTS-3 regions · aggregated from free, no-auth EU public data. Browse all regions →
Population
1.9m
GDP
€39.5B
GDP per capita
€21,233
Population density
29 /km²
Unemployment
6.9%
pop-weighted
Employment
78.2%
pop-weighted
Area
64,610.9 km²
NUTS-3 regions
5
Country indicators · 71 metrics (sums & pop-weighted averages)
Economy
Gross value added, total (current prices)
€34.7B
country total
GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)
€1.6B
country total
GVA — industry (B–E)
€5.8B
country total
GVA — manufacturing (C)
€4.3B
country total
GVA — construction (F)
€2.1B
country total
GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)
€10.5B
country total
Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)
€12,000
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)
26,748 PPS
pop-weighted avg
GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)
€21,024
pop-weighted avg
Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)
€48.6B
country total · NUTS-2 src
Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)
€5.0B
country total · NUTS-2 src
Compensation of employees (total wage bill)
€106.5B
country total · NUTS-2 src
GVA — real estate activities (L)
€3.0B
country total
GVA — information & communication (J)
€2.4B
country total
GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)
€7.2B
country total
GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)
€7.5B
country total
Labour market
Employment, total persons
922.2k
country total
Self-employed persons
108.2k
country total
Employment in manufacturing (C)
116k
country total
Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)
77.6%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Youth unemployment rate (15–24)
14.8%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Business demography
Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)
146.3k
country total
Enterprise births
18.8k
country total
Enterprise deaths
9.1k
country total
3-year enterprise survival rate
5.2%
pop-weighted avg
Innovation & R&D
EPO patent applications
0.8
country total
EPO patent applications per million inhabitants
1 /M
pop-weighted avg
R&D expenditure as % of GDP
0.9%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)
5.3%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Education
Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64
40.7%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)
44.7%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)
11.4%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)
24.8%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)
8.0%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Digital
Households with internet access
94.1%
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Tourism
Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)
4.7m
country total
Tourism intensity (nights per 1,000 inhabitants)
837 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Mobility
Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants
424 /1k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.
13.6k
country total
Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).
733.2
pop-weighted avg
Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.
85.9
pop-weighted avg
Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.
4
country total
Demography
Population aged 15–64 (working age)
1.2m
country total
Population aged 65+
406.8k
country total
Population aged under 15
280.9k
country total
Median age of population
44.5 yrs
pop-weighted avg
Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)
34.7%
pop-weighted avg
Crude rate of total population change
-9.6 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment
-2.3 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude birth rate
6.9 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Crude death rate
14.3 /1k
pop-weighted avg
Live births
12.9k
country total
Deaths
26.7k
country total
Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)
58.6%
pop-weighted avg
Total fertility rate (births per woman)
1.23
pop-weighted avg
Population density (persons per km²)
131 /km²
pop-weighted avg
Social
Life expectancy at birth
76.4 yrs
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Health
Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)
1,728 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)
278 /100k
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Safety & crime
Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants
2.4 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Robberies per 100k inhabitants
14.4 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Burglaries per 100k inhabitants
124 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Thefts per 100k inhabitants
646 /100k
pop-weighted avg
Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants
60 /M
pop-weighted avg · NUTS-2 src
Climate
Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)
76 m
pop-weighted avg
Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)
2 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)
114 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)
2 days/yr
pop-weighted avg
environment
PM10 (coarse particulate matter) annual mean concentration — mean across EEA air-quality monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
18.7
pop-weighted avg
NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.
17.9
pop-weighted avg
O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).
51.6
pop-weighted avg
Largest regions by GDP